On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 3:02 PM, Dakota Hamill <dkotes@gmail.com> wrote:
> Just a crazy idea, since we're on the topic of spec light sources.
>
> Could you use the sun as a light source for UV/Vis spec? I bet with some
> lenses you could get a nice beam, and wouldn't it contain UV as well?
> (unless the glass was UV transparent)
>
> I suppose if you have to use a diffraction grating and then stand there and
> slightly move the mirrors as the sun moves it isn't that great, but just
> seems like a waste of a perfectly
> good 2,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 kg nuclear fusion light
> source in the sky.
>
I've considered that, wouldn't work in a lab without a light pipe
though... and the exact spectrum would be dependent on clouds, etc,
but if there was enough light and it wasn't changing rapidly, you
could just calibrate it out with a 'blank' sample
--
Nathan McCorkle
Rochester Institute of Technology
College of Science, Biotechnology/Bioinformatics
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